Effective Church Communications

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and Biblical Inspiration to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission

Effective Church Communications provides Timeless Strategy and a Biblical Perspective to help churches create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. Our tools constantly change; our task doesn’t; Effective Church Communications can help.

Church Bulletins are STILL a vital piece of Church Communications, plus links to Four (one free) eBooks about them

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As many churches work hard to build back ministries decimated by Covid, complete and frequent communications that contain the essentials of what is going on in the church are extremely important. Your church bulletin is a unique communication piece in how it can be accessed by anyone and can contain a tremendous amount of material along with links to where to find out more.

For decades I've taught, written about, and helped many churches make effective bulletins and have collected much of the material in the eBooks below.

***Check them out for both strategy and practical implementation ideas.

Four books on Church Communications, all from the Effective Church Communications Library

The first one is a FREE DOWNLOAD and is highly recommended as a foundation for why church bulletins are STILL ESSENTIAL communications for churches. Just click on the cover to go to it.

Are Printed Bulletins still needed in the church? eBook
In the time of digital communications and social media, many want to get rid of bulletins, but this short booklet might help you think again.
Church Bulletins, an archive of tips eBook
The church bulletin is often the first piece of church communication an unchurched person sees--what does it say? This book will help the experience be a positive one.
Church Bulletin Gospel Presentations eBook
The Gospel, the good news about Jesus is our most important message, here are examples of how some churches share it.
This is a collection of articles from Effective Church Communications about church bulletins that are both strategic and practical.

You asked for more on how to use Canva and I’ve got some exciting news for you! Announcing CANVA templates and videos on how to use them

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You asked for more on how to use Canva and I've got some exciting news for you—CANVA templates and videos on how to use them!

I don't know about you but I really dislike how-to videos about a program I really want to learn, but that has little to no relationship to any real-world product.

I'm talking about the kind that simply demonstrates "features" and you are left wondering how those actions could ever apply to your projects.

What I decided to do was to DEMONSTRATE the various ways you can use Canva by actually showing you HOW to do things with real Templates, and real projects you do. Not only does this make the learning more practical, but I discovered it is incredibly easy to link you directly to Canva where you can modify the templates I create for you.

Here is the first video I created for how to sign up for Canva and then modify Fall Templates.

CLICK on the Titles below that go to previews of the two initial projects I did for this: Fall Invitation Postcards and Fall Business Card-size Invitations.

Free Fall postcards

Free Fall Business Invitation Cards

FREE TEMPLATES–Canva Fall Invitation Postcards, also jpg format you can use in MS Publisher

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Below is a set of Free Templates in Canva you can use for Fall Invitation Postcards.

CLICK HERE to go to Canva to modify them.

Click the following link to download a Zip File of the jpgs: FALL INVITE Postcard jpgs

Below is a video that shows you how to modify the Templates here and download and use them in MS Publisher.

FREE TEMPLATES: Church Business Card Size Fall Festival and other Fall Events

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Here are some FREE Templates in Canva you can use to print business cards to invite people to a variety of fall events. This is part of the launch of many new and revised templates in Canva that you can also download and use in MS Publisher. For a video on how to use these, CLICK HERE.

Following are the designs and below them the link to Canva where you can modify them. If you simply want to download and use jpg images of them, a link for that is below the images also.

To go to the Canva file, modify or download as is, CLICK on the link HERE

To download a zip file of jpg images of the cards that you can use in MS Publisher or web applications, CLICK HERE.

For a video of how to sign up for Canva and some initial tips on editing Templates and how to download and use them in MS Publisher, check out the video here:

Game changer! The loss of comprehension of cursive—what it means to church communicators and what to do about it—Canva video included

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Contrast between cursive and block lettering
Many people today have trouble reading the cursive scripts in either print or handwriting. We need to be aware of this and design accordingly in our church communications if we want to reach the most people possible.

This is incredibly important for you to understand before you do ANY more outreach advertising, encouragements, or communications creation of any kind, if you want the the maximum number of people in your church and community to be able to read them.

The reason for my urgent message is the realization that many people today cannot read cursive writing and that includes ALL the wonderful script fonts we like to use so much in our designs for church communications. That includes the group of templates I had ready to send out to you that I need to update. (Sigh.)

This is not a happy post for me to write. I don't like change any more than the average person and to have to change something as basic and natural to me as writing cursive and using wonderful script fonts in communication design just seems like a bit much to deal with.

When I am feeling grumpy like this I remind myself that the communication I do isn't about me, but about a world that needs Jesus and NOTHING should be too much to do, little or big if it can help us reach them. So I slap myself, ask for forgiveness and write a blog about it......

First I'll give you a little background on how I became aware of the loss of the ability to read cursive and then some very practical steps on what to do about it, plus a short Canva Tutorial on some creative ways to deal with this situation on a Fall Outreach Postcard.

It is later in the post, keep reading first for more background on this situation.

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